Experimental Jewelry: VICKYGONART

I love experimental and unconventional jewelry! In this series I'm featuring jewelry artists who work with unconventional materials and techniques, and who see a ring or a pendant as a canvas to express their art and creativity.

Vicky of Vickygonart is a talented painter and jewelry artist from Andalusia, Spain, and one of the very first artists I admired on Etsy. I immediately fell in love with her colorful and cheerful handpainted jewelry, which is a celebration of the Mediterranean lifestyle and color and reflects the Spanish love for life and happy colors. Vicki's work rightly deserves the title of "Wearable Art", as she adorns a woman with unique, one-of-a-kind art pieces. Each and every one of her earrings, pendants, rings and brooches is lovingly handpainted with her distinctive style and choice of colors and motifs.
You can find Vicky's unique Wearable Art in her Etsy shop Vickygonart. Fiesta time... enjoy!

Pandora Bag

 Triangulos

 Sol y Luna

Susi

Pilar

Anik

Estrella

Edurne Violetas 

Jannis

Venus

WORK IN PROGRESS: Painting Collage on Wood

So I've been adding color to my decoupaged wooden buttons... Starts looking nice, doesn't it?

HOT

I love these color weather maps of the Deutscher Wetterdienst! :)

The second half of August is traditionally the time when Autumn starts creeping in and days get cooler and sometimes rainy... In the North of Italy July is usually the hottest month. But this year has been a little strange... and after an extraordinarily cool and rainy July, August has been a full summer month, and now we even have a heat wave with temperatures well over 30°C!

This is the European heat alert for today. I am in that orange area in the North-West corner of Italy...

www.meteoalarm.eu

CREATIVE CORNER: Mini Decoupage on Wood

One of the exciting and challenging things about making "experimental jewelry" is that I get to experiment with lots of techniques on very small surfaces... I have these large unfinished wood buttons, and I decided I wanted to decoupage them as a basis for further decoration.

Rather then decoupage, I did a mix between decoupage and papier mache! I glued little scraps from a Greek magazine, using a generous layer of decoupage glue so as to drench the scraps and fix them well to the wood.

Stay tuned for the next steps!

CRAZY CROCUS

Crocus is an early-spring blooming flower... This little fellow seems to be a little bit early (or late?)! :)

STILL SUMMER!

To tell you the truth, I love wearing bright, colorful, bold jewelry all year long... it's summer for me all year long -- jewelry-wise, at least! :) But in the summer it's even more fun, as colors really pop in the sun! I love all shades of blue, and especially all the bright Greek blues!

This is what I wore yesterday... all in blue glass (and wood for the earrings)!

- Glass bead, Rhodes -

- Glass beads from thrift store, may be African recycled glass beads -

- Turkish evil eye glass bead -

- Glass beads, wooden disks -

ALPINE RHODES

There is a quite unusual Rhodes that not many know or are aware of... The other day I was comparing pictures with my special one, and we realized how surprisingly similar the mountain sceneries of Rhodes and my little mountain paradise here in the Alps are... These photos could have been taken here... and the other way round! The inland of Rhodes reveals stunning and surprising Alpine sceneries... would you believe that?

The big photos are from Rhodes, the "polaroid" pics are my own from here, taken a couple days ago and which I showed larger here on my previous post! The similarities are amazing!